Gardening Lessons In 2024
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I are happily planning our 2025 gardens during this break in growing seasons (i.e. the wintery weather).
One of the steps in that plan is to review what we’ve learned from gardening this past year.
We learned A LOT about growing eggplants. We learned wild rabbits love eating eggplant plants and we should surround those plants with chicken wire fencing. We learned that eggplant plants grow slowly and we should start the seeds in January. We learned that once they start to produce, they produce heavily and for a long time. They can survive some light frosts!
We learned that growing root vegetables like carrots and beets and, yes, potatoes, directly in the ground isn’t advisable for us. We have so many grubs and other critters! (Happily as that means our soil is full of life. – smiles) We’ll be growing root vegetables in containers going forward.
We also learned that we can duplicate rose plants by setting pruned branches on the ground and lightly covering them with soil. The success rate for this is low but there IS success and we only need a couple plants a year from using this method to keep our rose bed looking great.
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Claiming Cure
A proud cyborg medic meets his human match.
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Cyra has tasks to complete before she dies.
There are patients to heal, a dangerous mission to undertake, and a world to save. She doesn’t have time to entertain uninvited guests.
Especially one coldhearted cyborg medic who thinks he’s better than her.
The male might be breathtakingly handsome. His sternly set lips might be extremely kissable. And his touch might draw out a passion she didn’t think she was capable of feeling.
But he’s also a distraction, one that might doom millions of innocent beings to a painful, horrible death.
Cure isn’t emotionless. He feels…greatly. Listening to that malfunction has caused other beings pain and suffering in the past.
He refuses to allow his desires to cloud his judgment now.
His resolve is tested when he’s forced to associate with the most provoking, alluring medic in the universe.
Cyra is his genetic match, the one being in the universe he is fated to protect, touch, claim. She’s clever and beautiful, and the need to hold her almost downs his systems.
But now is not the time to indulge his great wanting.
Cure has an assignment to complete.
If he fails to accomplish his goals, everyone he cares for, including his human female, will die.
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Gardening – Eggplant Harvest
This was our first year growing eggplant and we had some adventures. (grins)
We started the plants late as we had a tough time finding seeds. (We’ve already stocked next year’s seeds, having learned this lesson). Then when the plants were about calf high, the wild bunny ate every single plant down to their very stems.
We put cages around those stems and lowered our expectations for the eggplant harvest. I didn’t think we’d get ANY eggplants. The Dear Wonderful Hubby was more optimistic.
I am happy to say… I was wrong. We have a LOT of eggplants on the plants and the weather forecast is heat and sun for October so they should grow to harvest size.
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I LOVE eggplant and we’ll definitely grow it again next year!
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Drift Would
A cyborg and a spy fly into danger.
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Drift is one of the best pilots in existence, and he has been assigned a perilous mission.
The G Model cyborg must fly to a distant planet, locate the sector-destroying superweapon the enemy is projected to be developing there, and obliterate that threat to the universe.
When Drift arrives at his destination and meets with an informant, he’s distracted by a mysterious human female seated in the shadows. She’s Drift’s genetic match, and she is the one being he’s destined to care for, claim, and protect.
She’s also a liar and a thief. And she might be working with the enemy.
Trusting her could kill him and everyone he cares about.
Liar. Thief. Seductress. Saboteur. Roshini has been called all of those things. And she has earned each label. She’s done some terrible things to safeguard the beings she loves.
A gray-eyed cyborg warrior with nimble hands and a shared need for speed won’t stop her high-risk activities.
She’ll sacrifice everything, including her lifespan, to complete her self-appointed top-secret assignment.
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Gardening – Practice Years
This is the first year we grew eggplant and squashes.
The zucchini gave us produce. The eggplant and the butternut squash have absolutely nothing on the vine.
We made mistakes.
We started the eggplant too late. Then we didn’t realize that our wild bunny would love eating the plants.
With the butternut squash, we didn’t prune some of the male flowers to allow more female flowers to bud.
We also had weather issues. It was cool and damp and all the butternut squash female flowers that DID form rotted off.
I’m disappointed but this lack of production isn’t a surprise. The first year of growing anything is, what I think of as, a practice year. Mistakes will happen. Plants will die. Other plants won’t produce.
We’ve learned and it should be a little better growing year next year.
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Drift Would
A cyborg and a spy fly into danger.
***
Drift is one of the best pilots in existence, and he has been assigned a perilous mission.
The G Model cyborg must fly to a distant planet, locate the sector-destroying superweapon the enemy is projected to be developing there, and obliterate that threat to the universe.
When Drift arrives at his destination and meets with an informant, he’s distracted by a mysterious human female seated in the shadows. She’s Drift’s genetic match, and she is the one being he’s destined to care for, claim, and protect.
She’s also a liar and a thief. And she might be working with the enemy.
Trusting her could kill him and everyone he cares about.
Liar. Thief. Seductress. Saboteur. Roshini has been called all of those things. And she has earned each label. She’s done some terrible things to safeguard the beings she loves.
A gray-eyed cyborg warrior with nimble hands and a shared need for speed won’t stop her high-risk activities.
She’ll sacrifice everything, including her lifespan, to complete her self-appointed top-secret assignment.
***
Drift Would is a standalone, enemies-to-lovers, Cyborg SciFi Romance set in a dark, gritty, sometimes-violent universe.
It features a cyborg who loves to break speed records, a human spy with a talent for changing her appearance, and a foe intent on killing them both.
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